Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-07-01

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VOL. XXI.
A PROJECT for direct rail connection
between st. Paul and Denver is said TO
be ripe for consummation.
An eastern journal estimates the pres
ent population of the United States at
| nearly 100000.
An attempt was made to enforce the
Missouri Sunday law at st. Louis, with
only partial success. A large number of
arrests were made.
THE English yacht Genesta has won
the Jubilee yacht race. The course was
circuit of the British and Irish coasts,
and the Genesta made it i'll twelve days,
sixteen hours aud fftytwo minutes.
THR Chinese laundrymen in New York,
have struck for an advance from 81 to
$3.50, and from $3.50 to 81 a day. Chi
nese cheap labor appears to be learning
'Ie Mclean way"
GENERAL O. o. HOWARD, telegraphs to
the war department that the hostile
Apach4s in Arizona have been driven
back INTO their reservation and are now
under the control of the militia.
The visible supply of grain in the
United States compared with last week
shows decrease of 2,897,5 bushels of
wheat, 915, 1888 bushels of corn, ia, 1852
bushels of oats, 1854 bushels Of rye, and
1868 bushels of barley.
The north bound Missouri Pacific train
was caught ia terrific hail storm near
Yalto Center, Kas., on Saturday, and all
the glass on one side of the train was de-
molsbed. The hail destroyed this corn
crop Of a section in Wilson county two
and half miles wide.
PERMIT has beer taken out in Chi
cage for the erection OF new auditorium
there. The dimensions are $50 feet on
Congress street, 1S7 feet on Michigan ay-
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The building will contain 100000 cubic
feet and will cost S2,00O,OOO.
THREE injunctions have been granted
restraining the east eide elevated roads
in New York from operating their lines
in front of certain premises in Third and
Second avenues. The companies will be
compelled to buy the property in ques-
or compromise with its ownors.
WHILE with a picnic party at Port
Washington, Wis, Mrs. lone Cove Haw-
ley came within az ace of losing her life,
through the accidental discharge of a
revolver, in the hands of John Bostwjck.
The bali pierced the ladys clothing at
the side, and struck squarely against
corset STEEL which without doubt, was
least very dangerous wound.
The suburban handicap, run at Sleeps
head bay, Saturday, was won by Eurus,
Origamme second. The race was worth
$4,000 to the winner, and over a million
dollars are said to have changed hands
on the event. The leaving of Quito and
Ben Ali at the post caused rumors that
the bookmakers. The other events were
captured by eleanor, Berlin, Omaha,
Hanover and Bassanl.
CHARLES ALDEN, of Randolph, Mass.,
once one of the richest inventors III New
England, committed suicide recently to
escape the Pangs of poverty. For one
patent alone, that for the evaporation OF
apples, he received the sum of $780, 900.
In former years he was member of the
New York board of aldermen, and was
looked upon as one of the most promis-
ing real estate dealers in the metropolis.
Unfortunate speculations swept all his
possessions away.
RECENTLY, Generals Sherman and Sher-
idan were at West Point and expressed a
wish to have their portraits placed beside
that of Grant in Grant hall. George w.
ChiIds, who presented West Point with
the Grant portrait, ut once told Sherman
aud Sheridan that he would gladly add
their pictures to his gift, and added that
they were at liberty to choose their own
artists. fhe portraits of the two generals
are to be of the same size as that of Gen
eral Grant.
THE Chinese foreign board has issued
a circular TO the effect that the govern
ment Is constructing r railway from
rientsin 10 the Sha-hwo gate at Pekin,
to be finished within two years, and that
the owners of any graves in the way of
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